Name: Mycoplasma tullyi 56A97
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 140022

Type strain:

Species: Mycoplasma tullyi

Strain Designation: 56A97

Culture col. no.: DSM 21909, ATCC BAA-1432, NCTC 11747

Strain history: <- J. M. Bradbury, Univ. Liverpool, United Kingdom; 56A97 <- VLA Weybridge, UK <- VLA Preston, UK

NCBI tax ID(s): 1612150 (species)

SI-ID 406367

DSM 21909

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Section

Mycoplasma tullyi 56A97 is an aerobe, pleomorphic-shaped animal pathogen that forms fried-egg-shaped colonies and was isolated from liver of a dead Humboldt penguin.

colony-forming
pleomorphic-shaped
aerobe
animal pathogen
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Mycoplasmatota*
	Class	*Mollicutes*
	Order	*Mycoplasmatales*
	Family	*Mycoplasmataceae*
	Genus	*Mycoplasma*
	Species	**Mycoplasma tullyi**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Mycoplasma tullyi Yavari et al. 2017

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #43560]	Cell shape	pleomorphic-shaped

[Ref.: #43560]	Colony shape	fried-egg-shaped
[Ref.: #43560]	Cultivation medium used	Agar

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

Agar

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium

SP4-Z MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1076b)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #42630]			growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #43560]			optimum	37 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #43560]	arginine ChEBI	-	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #43560]	glucose ChEBI	+	fermentation
[Ref.: #43560]	urea ChEBI	-	hydrolysis

	Antibiotica	Metabolite	Antibiotic resistance
[Ref.: #43560]		penicillin ChEBI	yes

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #42630]	Sample type/isolated from	liver of a dead Humboldt penguin
[Ref.: #42630]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Chester Zoological Gardens
[Ref.: #42630]	Country	United Kingdom
[Ref.: #42630]	Country ISO 3 Code	GBR
[Ref.: #42630]	Continent	Europe
[Ref.: #42630]	Geographic location	53.2227°/-2.8838°

[Ref.: #43560]	Sample type/isolated from	the liver of a post mortem 10-day-old Humboldt penguin
[Ref.: #43560]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Chester Zoo, Cheshire
[Ref.: #43560]	Country	United Kingdom
[Ref.: #43560]	Country ISO 3 Code	GBR
[Ref.: #43560]	Continent	Europe
[Ref.: #43560]	Geographic location	53.2270°/-2.8840°
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Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Birds	-
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Liver

What are isolation sources categories?

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #42630]	Pathogenicity (animal)	yes, in single cases
[Ref.: #42630]	Biosafety level	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #42630]	Mycoplasma sp. 56A97 DNA containing 16S rRNA gene (partial) and 16S-23S intergenic spacer region, strain 56A97	LN811535	2173	GenBank ENA	1612150 tax ID

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 21909, ATCC BAA-1432, NCTC 11747

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SI-ID 406367

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Mycoplasma tullyi sp. nov., isolated from penguins of the genus Spheniscus.	Yavari CA, Ramirez AS, Nicholas RAJ, Radford AD, Darby AC, Bradbury JM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002052	2017	*

References

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21909

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Christine A. Yavari, Ana S. Ramírez, Robin A. J. Nicholas, Alan D. Radford, Alistair C. Darby, Janet M. Bradbury: Mycoplasma tullyi sp. nov., isolated from penguins of the genus Spheniscus. IJSEM 67: 3692 - 3698 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002052 , PubMed 28895509 )

#96449

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID406367.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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